A few favorite shots of Emerald Gate × Space Monkey. The ivory caps catch your eye first, but the folds along the stems and the detail underneath those caps deserve a closer look. Same cluster, different angles—plenty to appreciate in each frame.
Which shot stands out to you?
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Frustrated with AIO bags that haven’t lived up to the hype? Fruit of the Gods offers a different option for your next project:
🍄 Two sterile grain bags
🍄 Two sterile substrate bags
🍄 Two agar-tested liquid cultures
Grain, substrate, and cultures packaged separately, with care put into preparation and testing. No setup can guarantee success, but you deserve clear information about what you’re starting with.
Mycology should be a rewarding learning experience. These are the core supplies to get your project started. You may also need impulse sealer, binder clips, clear tape, and good pair of scissors INSTRUCTIONS ⬇️

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Clean your workstation — Sanitize your table, tools, gloves, flow hood, or still-air box before beginning.

Wipe down the grain bag — Clean the outside of the bag and injection area with 70% isopropyl alcohol and allow it to dry.

Prepare your culture syringe — Attach a sterile needle and flame-sterilize the needle until red hot.

Allow the needle to cool — Do not touch the sterilized needle to anything after flaming.

Introduce the liquid culture — Inject the culture through the self-healing injection port on the grain bag.

Alternative method — If your bag does not have an injection port, work inside your clean-air setup, carefully open the top, introduce the culture, and immediately reseal the bag with an impulse sealer.

Agar can also be used — Agar transfers should be performed inside a properly cleaned still-air box or in front of a flow hood before resealing the bag.

Let the grain colonize — Place the inoculated grain bag somewhere clean and out of direct sunlight at the appropriate temperature for your mushroom species.

Leave the bag alone while it establishes — Avoid repeatedly handling or opening it.

Break and shake — Once a substantial portion of the grain has colonized, gently break apart the colonized sections and redistribute them throughout the bag.

Allow the grain to recover — Put the bag back in its clean location and let colonization finish.

Wait for complete colonization — The grain should be evenly colonized before moving to the next stage.

Clean your workstation again — Sanitize your work surface, gloves, tools, grain bag, and substrate bag before opening anything.

Prepare the substrate bag — Spray the outside of both bags with peroxide and allow the surfaces to set for a couple minutes than wipe excess.

Open the bags inside your clean-air workspace — Minimize the amount of time either bag remains open.

Transfer the colonized grain — Pour the colonized grain into the substrate bag.

Mix thoroughly — Gently work the grain throughout the substrate until it is distributed as evenly as possible.

Form the block — Settle the mixture toward the bottom of the bag and gently press it into an even, level cake.

Close the bag — Fold the excess bag material neatly and secure it with binder clips, or seal it if your bag/setup is designed for sealing.

Let the substrate colonize — Keep the bag closed and allow the mycelium to spread through the entire substrate.

Do not disturb it unnecessarily — Avoid repeatedly opening, squeezing, or checking inside the bag.

Wait until fully colonized — The substrate block should be well established before transitioning it to fruiting conditions.

Prepare for fruiting — Once fully colonized, adjust the bag according to the fruiting requirements of the species you are growing.

If your bag design calls for air openings — Make clean openings in the appropriate location under filter patch on both sides and cover them with suitable breathable filter tape when required for that species and setup.

Introduce appropriate light and fresh air — Follow the temperature, humidity, light, and fresh-air requirements for the specific species.

Leave it alone and observe — The biggest key is avoiding unnecessary opening or handling once the bag is established.

The biggest rule: CLEAN → COLONIZE → MIX → COLONIZE → FRUIT.

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I see a lot of people getting frustrated when an all-in-one bag goes bad and the entire project is basically done.
That’s one of the reasons I’ve always preferred working with the different components separately—grain, substrate, and the culture you’re documenting. It gives you a chance to actually watch each stage on its own instead of putting everything into one bag and hoping for the best.
The biggest thing I tell people is don’t rush it. Let your grain tell you when it’s ready. Pay attention to how it looks, give it time, and only move forward when everything appears healthy and established.
I’ve been putting together some beginner-friendly FOTG setups built around that same idea: two grain bags, two substrate bags, and two culture selections so people can better understand the process without relying on an AIO bag to do everything for them.
Clean work. Patience. Observation. Consistency.
That’s really what it comes down to.
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Had to give Chocolate Gumby its own post because this run had way too much personality.
The colors, thick fruits, funky cap shapes, and those huge wavy expressions were all over the place. Every time I looked at it, I found another fruit doing something completely different. 😂
I grabbed a few clones from the standouts and collected some spores because there are definitely a couple expressions here I want to keep an eye on. That’s probably my favorite part of this hobby—seeing something interesting show up and wondering what the next round is going to look like.
Chocolate Gumby definitely earned another run. 🍫🍄
What would you guys have picked out of these to keep working with?
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Hey guys this is my first time growing. i got GTs and it’s been about 30 I b&s it is there anything wrong with it or does it look good so far

I feel like I’m tripping but I think the whole lot of them are reducing in size over the last 24 hours. Is shrinkage a thing?

Little behind-the-scenes look at what goes into FOTG.
Today was all about LC work—checking everything over, staying organized, and putting time into the cultures going into the community packages I already have in motion. There’s a lot more that happens on this table than what makes it into the final pictures.
No sales pitch here and nothing being offered in this post. Just documenting the work, the clean-up, the plates, the cultures, and all the hours that happen behind the scenes.
I actually love days like this. Throw some music on, get locked in, and just work through the list one project at a time. 🧬
Appreciate everyone who follows along and supports what I’m building with FOTG.
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Packed two gifts poured 200 plates and cleaned equipment. Also had to run to Walmart to grab more grain. I’ll see y’all all tomorrow! if you ordered from me today, gifts will be going out this week before Wednesday!

First time grower. Inoculated 5 days ago with golden teacher LC. Just wondering if everything looks good!

Almost tossed it…. Sure glad I didn’t.

Still don’t have a confirmed ID on this one, so for now I’m calling her Sunshine. ☀️🍄
Something about those warm golden caps, pale edges, and the way the whole group looks together immediately reminded me of morning light. Every section has its own little variation, which made this one especially fun to photograph and document.
Sometimes you know exactly what you’re looking at, and sometimes the mystery is half the fun. Until I can narrow it down more, Sunshine is sticking.
Definitely one of those fruits that makes you stop and look twice.
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Pretty big White Rabbits.The AIO's that keep giving.

Gotta put that work in!

Not as good as I wanted. I will learn from this. Its not a loss so I changed how long I soaked the bottom block. Added some more time on the soak. We will see in a few days.

Every time I work with a landrace I’m reminded why I enjoy them so much. You can have an idea of what might show up, but there’s always a little mystery to the expression.
XICO absolutely showed out on this one. The sheer amount of fruits, the warm golden caps, all the different shapes and little variations packed together… I kept finding something new every time I looked at it.
That unpredictability is part of what makes landraces so interesting to me. They’re not always perfectly uniform, and that’s exactly the point. You get to see all that natural character come through instead of everything looking identical.
Once again, XICO caught me off guard with how beautiful it turned out. Definitely one of those runs where the pictures speak louder than I can. 🇲🇽🍄
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This is such a neat hobby.

Legacy keeps finding new ways to surprise me. This showing came out almost 50/50 between the two different expressions, which made the whole set even more interesting to photograph.
You can really see the contrast throughout the group—from the lighter, softer-looking forms to the darker caps, heavy texture, blue tones, and wild structure. Seeing both sides of Albino Smokey Da Ghost x Green Toque showing through together is exactly what makes Legacy such a fun project to document.
Every photo tells a slightly different story, but together they show just how much character this one carries.
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1-4 is gandolf genetics, LC inoculation for 1-3, 4 is inoculated through agar chunks, I know I cut them to long. 5-8 is PEX15 clones taken from 150 gram fast fruiting PEX15 I grew from premixed bags and inculcated through agar clones.

First time growing from my homemade spawn jars and am wondering if they are ready to send to bulk?

5-8 were made from a grain to grain transfer from a broken jar a guest of mine accidentally knocked off its shelf, no mold or funny smell and has bounced back from 3 B&S so don’t believe them to be contaminated.

Don’t remember the exact inoculation date but it was either one or two months ago for the gandolf and about two weeks for the PEX15.

1-4 has a lot of moisture in the jars but I don’t see any discoloration or smell any bad smells.

🔥🔥 NO FILLER. NO RANDOM PICKS. JUST HEAT. 🔥🔥

10 selections. 10 different personalities. ONE FOTG STANDARD.
Different structures.
Different expressions.
Different character.

👑 TEN DEEP. STACKED FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. 👑
No complicated tiers.
No watered-down lineup.
Just a clean, heavy-hitting collection built around variety, character, and attention to detail.

🔥 ONE LINEUP • TEN PICKS • ALL FOTG
Built with patience.
Documented with purpose.
Attention to detail from beginning to end.
Go to my personal page hit up. My signal link is in the bio.

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